Top 500 Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “What brings understanding is love. When your heart is full, then you will listen to the teacher, to the beggar, to the laughter of children, to the rainbow, and to the sorrow of man. Under every stone and leaf, that which is eternal exists.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

52. “Transformation can only take place immediately; the revolution is now, not tomorrow.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

53. “To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

54. “When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.”

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55. “The mind gives meaning to anything but the meaning it gives is meaningless.”

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56. “A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.”

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57. “Without love there is no art. When the artist is playing beautifully there is no ’me; there is love and beauty, and this is art. This is skill in action.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

58. “To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.”

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59. “One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.”

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60. “The word ‘innocence’ means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.”

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61. “Relationship is the mirror in which we see ourselves as we are. All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

62. “If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity.”

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63. “Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

64. “We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”

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65. “Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.”

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66. “It is only in alert silence that truth can be.”

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67. “Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.”

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68. “The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

69. “To be free comes not from changing or fixing this world, but from seeing this world as it is and opening the heart in the midst of it.”

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70. “It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

71. “The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.”

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72. “Freedom is always at the beginning and not at the end.”

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73. “Observe, and in that observation there is neither the “observer” nor the “observed” – there is only observation taking place.”

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74. “To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.”

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75. “Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class – which again breeds isolation, loneliness.”

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76. “Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.”

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77. “Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life – perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.”

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78. “It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

79. “It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don’t have to do a thing.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

80. “All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.”

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81. “You can only be afraid of what you think you know.”

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82. “Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.”

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83. “Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.”

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84. “Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.”

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85. “We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

86. “Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone.”

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87. “Action has meaning only in relationship, and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict.”

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88. “To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.”

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89. “Intelligence comes into being when the mind, the heart and the body are really harmonious.”

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90. “If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”

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91. “Learning in the true sense of the word is possible only in that state of attention, in which there is no outer or inner compulsion. Right thinking can come about only when the mind is not enslaved by tradition and memory.”

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92. “Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.”

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93. “You yourself are the Teacher, and the Pupil, you’re the Master, you’re the Guru, you are the Leader, you are Everything! And, to understand, is to transform what Is.”

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94. “A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.”

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95. “Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.”

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96. “To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.”

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97. “Look at that battle you are involved in; you are caught in it: you are it.”

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98. “To change the world, we must begin with ourselves.”

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99. “To ask the ‘right’ question is far more important than to receive the answer. The solution of a problem lies in the understanding of the problem; the answer is not outside the problem, it is in the problem.”

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100. “Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the ‘me’ is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti